Sterling Hayden
2) The star
Edition
Standard version.
Language
English
Description
Bette Davis stars in the story of a fading movie star who is convinced that she needs only one good picture to reestablish her popularity and fortune.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of paranoia-inspired, war-happy generals manage to initiate an "accidential" nuclear apocalypse. Joint Chief of Staff "Buck" Turgidson and Air Force Strategic Commander Jack Ripper, order a bomber squadron to attack the USSR. This triggers a Soviet secret weapon called the 'Doomsday Machine.' The weapon is a diabolical retaliatory missile system. In an attempt to advert this catastrophe, British Captain Lionel Mandrake becomes the only person...
4) The killing
Series
Criterion collection volume 575
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A group of criminals plot the perfect racetrack robbery.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Saloon owner Vienna battles the local townspeople headed by Emma, the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy female rancher out to frame her for a string of robberies. Johnny Logan is a guitar-strumming drifter with a dark past who was once in love with Vienna and has been offered a job in her saloon. Nicholas Ray's epic western is considered one of the most original westerns of all time. The women are far tougher than the men and some saw a bizarre...
7) The outsider
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Disillusioned by his experience in Vietnam, an Irish-American moves to Ireland and joins the IRA. Craig Wasson stars as Michael Flaherty, a young man looking for something to believe in after his time in Vietnam. An American by birth, Michael grow up hearing tales from his Irish grandfather about Ireland. Inspired by the Irish Republican Army's cause of an unified Ireland free from British rule, Michael volunteers to be a member. He's a stranger...
Series
Criterion collection volume 821
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Eager for war, a general plans a nuclear apocalypse.
9) Nine to five
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Three female office workers combine forces to take revenge on their deceitful, egotistical, and thoroughly chauvinistic boss.
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
A heist is being set up to be pulled off by Doc, who has recruited a small gang to help him carry it out. Everything he could possibly think of was taken care of, down to the very last detail. It's the night of the heist and suddenly Doc's luck turns sour when betrayal strikes and the gangsters need to flee from the police.
12) The Long goodbye
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
For The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman successfully transports Philip Marlowe, incarnated by Elliott Gould, to the over-privileged, full-color 70s. Marlowe is lonely and shabby, yet does not seem an anachronism in the contemporary world. Unlike Bogart's Marlowe, this is a not especially tough Marlowe. He's a bright, conscientiously solemn nut, a guy who hopes for the best but expects the worst. This particular Philip Marlowe, despite evidence to the...
13) Suddenly
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Frank Sinatra's chilling central performance as a cold-blooded assassin with a heart of steel sparks this explosive thriller about a gang of brutal hired gunmen who invade the home of an unsuspecting suburban family.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Dark victory: A spoiled society girl faces terminal illness and a last chance to give her life meaning -- The letter: An adulteress tries to get away with murder -- Now, voyager: An ugly duckling-turned-swan defies her domineering mother -- Mr. Skeffington: Diptheria robs a beauty of her looks -- The star: A fading movie star tries to recover her career.
15) The killing
Series
Criterion collection volume 575
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
"Stanley Kubrick's account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood's tautest, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson, and a phenomenal cast of character actors, including Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Timothy Carey, Elisha Cook Jr., and Marie Windsor, The Killing is both a jaunty thriller and a cold-blooded punch to the gut. And with its precise tracking shots...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Part I: "The Godfather is a violent and chilling portrait of the Sicilian family's struggle to stay in power in a post-war America of corruption, deceit and betrayal."--Back of container.
Part II: "In what is undeniably one of the best sequels ever made, Francis Ford Coppola continues his epic Godfather trilogy with this saga of two generations of power withing the Corleone family."--Back of container.
Part III: "In the final installment of the...
17) Zero hour!
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A wrong dinner selection gives food poisoning to the pilot and first officer of Flight 714-- and that could mean doom for everyone aboard. This film was later spoofed in the comedy "Airplane!"
18) The Godfather
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Blu-ray version, Coppola restoration.
Language
English
Description
Violent and chilling portrait of a Sicilian family's struggle to stay in power in post-war America.
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Epic story covering a period in U.S. history from John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 to the summer of 1865 following President Lincoln's death. Focuses on two related families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon line who find themselves at war with each other.
20) 1900
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Three-disc collector's edizione.
Language
Italiano
Description
Epic story of two families in Italy traces both the rise of fascism and the conflict between the sons of the families, both born on January 1, 1900.